home looks like without her. She also wonders that her family will think about her in the competition.
She becomes more worry on the day when she feels does a bad thing to the Gamemakers; some judges of the games. It happens on the last training day that
Katniss has shot straight at the Gamemakers’s table. She did it to show her ability and to get attention from the Gamemakers. But, after that she feels worry about what she
did will be a bad thing for her family. It can be seen from her thought: Oh, what does it matter? It’s not like I was going to win the Games anyway.
Who cares what they do to me? What really scares me is what they might to do to my mother and Prim, how my family might suffer now because of my
impulsiveness. Will they take their few belongings, or send my mother to
prison and Prim to the community home, or kill them? They wouldn’t kill them, would they? Why not? What do they care? Collins 103-104.
Based on the Katniss’ behaviour above, it can be concluded that Katniss is affectionate person. She has everything to feed her family like applying for tesserae,
hunting in the woods, throw away her negative thinking to her mother. She also expresses her affectionate to their family through Gale. Then, she always remembers
many things and worry about her family during the training until the end of the games.
3.1.2 Dauntless
Another characteristic of Katniss is dauntless. Her courage can be seen when she replaces Prim’s position as a tribute on the reaping day. Honestly, she expresses
that “The reaping system is unfair, with the poor getting the worst of it. You become eligible for the reaping day you turn twelve. That year, your name is entered once. At
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thirteen, twice. And so on and so on until you reach the age of eighteen, the final year of eligibility, when your name goes into the pool seven times” 14. It is valid for all
twelve districts in every year. In the 74
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of Hunger Games, Katniss is sixteen years old. So her names have been accumulated become twenty times in the reaping day.
While, Prim is twelve years old this year, so she just need to enter her name once. When the reaping day comes, Katniss feels afraid because it is the first time
for Prim. Katniss hopes, it is not Prim that to be the tribute. Katniss tells “It’s time for the drawing, Effie Trinket says as she always does, “Ladies First” and crosses to the
glass ball with the girls’ names” 21. Then, she crosses back to the podium; open the paper and reads out the name in a clear voice. It is
Primrose Everdeen as the female’s tribute for district 12. Katniss does not believe that and says “There must have been
some mistakes. This can’t be happening. Prim was one slip of paper in thousands Her chances of being chosen so remote that I’d not even bothered to worry about her”
22. A thing that she does not want happen to Prim. Without long thinking, directly she braves herself for being a volunteer to replace Prim’s position. It can be seen
through her reaction: “I volunteer” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute”
There’s some confusion on the stage. District 12 hasn’t had volunteer in decades and the protocol h
as become rusty. The rule is that once a tribute’s name has been pulled from the ball, another eligible boy, if a boy’s name has
been read, or girl, if a girl’s name has been read, can step forward to take his or her place. In some districts, in which winning the reaping is such a great
honor, people are eager to risk their lives, the volunteer is complicated. But, in district 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the
word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct Collins 23.
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Based on the quotation above, it can be understood that Katniss has dauntless side in her characteristics. Action of Katniss as a volunteer is also unusual thing,
because it seems like you give your soul for death. Someone maybe think many times for taking the risk of it. But, Katniss sacrifices her soul without think it long time. It
has been clear out that Katniss is so dauntless even when nobody wants to taking the risk of it. She does not want prim as tribute because she knows the biggest risk is
death. But she pawns her soul for Prim.
3.1.3 Caring
Katniss depicts herself as a caring person. It can be seen when she helps Rue, a young girl from District11, gets some food during the games. Firstly, Rue has
helped Katniss points out a nest of tracker jacker a deadly wasp above Katniss’
head. It so help Katniss because she can use it to attack the Careers the strongest opponents that want to kill her. Then, when Katniss has passed that obstacle, Rue
follows her tracks slowly. Katniss knows that and offers Rue to be an ally. Rue reminds to Katniss’ little sister, she has regarded as Prim. So there is no word to do
not care her. After Katniss hunt, she cooks some food for Rue. She is so happy and gluts the meat quickly. It can be proven through their dialogues each other.
“Oh,” says Rue with a sigh. “I’ve never had a whole leg to myself before.” I’ll bet she hasn’t. I’ll bet meat hardly ever comes her way.
“Take the other,” I say. “Really?” she asks.
“Take whatever you want. . . Rue still looks uncertainly at the leg. “Oh, take it,” I say, putting the drumstick in her hands. “It will only keep a few days
anyway, and we’ve got the whole bird plus the rabbit.” Once she’s got hold of it, her appetite wins out and she takes a huge mouthful 201.
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From the quotation above, it can be depicted that Katniss is caring person. She does not let Rue starvation and wants to share her hunt with Rue. When she knows
that Rue just sleeps in the tree with her jacket and extra pair of socks, Katniss shares her sleeping bag voluntarily. S
he says “I think of how cold the nights have been. “You can share my sleeping bag if you want. We’ll both easily fit.” Her face lights
up. I can tell this is more than she dared hope for” 204. In the afternoon, they have plan about destroy the Careers’ supplies. Rue sets
fires to distract them while Katniss goes to Cornucopia to destroy their supplies. Before they start the plan, Katniss check stock of Rue’s food and also gives her
sleeping bag. She says “I help Rue collect and place the wood for the first two campfires, the third she’ll have time for on her own. . . Before I leave, I make sure
Rue’s well stocked with food and matches. I even insist she take my sleeping bag, in case it’s not possible to rendezvous by nightfall 210-211.
After Katniss blas ts the Careers’ supplies, then she returns to the meeting spot
wait for Rue, but she does not come back. Katniss goes looking for her and she hears Rue screams. Katniss says “There’s another high-pitched cry, this time my name.
“Katniss Katniss” “Rue” I shout back, so she knows I’m near. So, they know I’m near, and hopefully the girl who has attacked them with tracker jackers and gotten an
eleven they still can’t explain will be enough to pull their attention away from her. “Rue I’m coming” 229.
She finds Rue is on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She finds her just as another tribute stabs Rue with a spear. Katniss tells “She just has time to reach
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her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body” 229. Katniss kills that boy, but Rue has been in agony. She asks Katniss to be the winner,
and she promises for Rue. Rue says. Rue also asks the last request to Katniss sings a song for her.
“Sing,” she says, but I barely catch the word. Sing? I think. Sing what? I do know a few songs.
Sing. My throat is tight with tears, hoarse from smoke and fatigue. But if this
is Prim’s, I mean, Rue’s last request, I have to at least try. The song that comes to me is a simple lullaby, one we sing fretful, hungry babies to sleep
with , It’s old, very old I think Collins 231
Katniss loves her like she loves Prim, she sings a lullaby song and Rue’s eyes have closed slowly. Katniss feels sad and wait for Rue’s cannon fires. She says “For a
moment, I sit there, watching my tears drip down on her face. Rue’s cannon fires. I
lean forward and press my lips against her temple. Slowly, as if not to wake her, I lay her head back on the ground and release her hand” 232. It has proven that Katniss
cares to Rue until she buries and cover her body in flowers. A few steps into the woods grows a bank of wildflowers. Perhaps they are
really weeds of some sort, but they have blossoms in beautiful shades of violet and yellow and white. I gather up an armful and come back to Rue’s side.
Slowly, one stem at a time, I decorate her body in the flowers. Covering the ugly wound. Wreathing her face. Weaving her hair with bright colors Collins
234.
Katniss has got gift a loaf of bread from District 11. They appreciate Katniss’s care to Rue. It is the first time, there are two tributes that make a friendship during the
games and also get a gift from other District. It has been proven through Katniss speech:
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